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when you think about what's happening in libya, remember the fog of war. there was an intelligence report on the basis of which the u.n. ambassador made the comments she did in the sunday after -- on sunday talk shows. and more information has come out. but if you ever would think that this president, given the seriousness with which he takes the role of commander in chief, would carelessly put americans in harm's way, you need to think again. you don't understand who this man is. >> let's turn to mitt romney. you obviously -- another governor of massachusetts. his old stomping ground. did you inherit his binder of women? >> well, let me tell you that we have had a lot more success in encouraging talent of all kinds and backgrounds into this administration than the record of governor romney. i will say i listened to governor romney sometimes talk about his experience governing here in massachusetts and how successful he says it was. remember that governor romney is trailing the president here in massachusetts by 20 or 30 points. we know him. we know what t
when you think about what's happening in libya, remember the fog of war. there was an intelligence report on the basis of which the u.n. ambassador made the comments she did in the sunday after -- on sunday talk shows. and more information has come out. but if you ever would think that this president, given the seriousness with which he takes the role of commander in chief, would carelessly put americans in harm's way, you need to think again. you don't understand who this man is. >>...
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took out bin laden, pulled troops out of iraq, out of afghanistan, didn't put boots on the ground in libya, and sensing certainly in england a very different kind of presidential leadership to say what george bush did before him. and do you think that's a fair assessment, that obama has a very different kind of style? >> that certainly may be the perception in great britain. i spent most of my time in the middle east and i think when candidate romney, governor romney, says he is seeing the unraveling of the policy in the middle east, what i see in cairo, what i see in baghdad, what i see in abu dhabi is exactly that. this is an administration that is not seen as reliable, not seen as predictable and not seen as one that will be there when you need them there are needs for change in the middle east, but if there is anything that's necessary in the middle east, it's a sense of trust, and it's a sense of consistency, and it is a sense of standing by your allies, and this administration just hasn't done that over the last four years, and a great concern of arab allies about four years of the o
took out bin laden, pulled troops out of iraq, out of afghanistan, didn't put boots on the ground in libya, and sensing certainly in england a very different kind of presidential leadership to say what george bush did before him. and do you think that's a fair assessment, that obama has a very different kind of style? >> that certainly may be the perception in great britain. i spent most of my time in the middle east and i think when candidate romney, governor romney, says he is seeing...
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now we have this situation in libya and egypt, i would get out of the mideast is what i'd do. >> we can do it in five years? >> we can get out of the mideast a lot quicker than that. >> why isn't president obama stepping in and saying, we're going to take all of the vehicles the u.s. government has and put them on natural gas? >> that's just 200,000. >> lead by example? >> exactly. that's leadership, if he did that. he doesn't have to go on natural gas. put it on domestic fuel. that's what you need to do. get off of opec oil. but oil that we purchase from the mideast, from saudi arabia, particular, some part of that money goes to the taliban. okay, just get out of there and come home. they don't want us there. you're trying to change a culture that has been there for centuries. and you want to change it to a democracy, if they came over here and imposed their culture on us, we would -- of course we would not even consider it. and that's their attitude, too. >> most people are not good at changing their spouse, how can they change a culture? >> exactly. >> we're going to bring everybody
now we have this situation in libya and egypt, i would get out of the mideast is what i'd do. >> we can do it in five years? >> we can get out of the mideast a lot quicker than that. >> why isn't president obama stepping in and saying, we're going to take all of the vehicles the u.s. government has and put them on natural gas? >> that's just 200,000. >> lead by example? >> exactly. that's leadership, if he did that. he doesn't have to go on natural gas. put...
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i don't expect him to miss on the libya issue next time around. people have generally said that because the economy and domestic policy is really his strong suit is where they expect him to perform well. i think he is able to link america's place in the world to jobs. >> what happens if he comes out and says look, come on your foreign policy has been a disaster and barack obama says i killed bin laden and i helped to kill ghadafi and i ended the war in iraq and announced the war in afghanistan and i helped to employ freedom. >> i think you have to do more. killing bin laden is something anyone could have done. but his view isn't necessarily the right one. i think it will be interesting to see them debate about it against each other. let me ask you this, very briefly, your verdict on what may happen on monday. you laid out his record and i think we have one of the most extra ordinary secretaries of state. looking back at the debate, clearly these issues did come out. joe biden said we are going to get out of afghanistan and paul ryan was unable to
i don't expect him to miss on the libya issue next time around. people have generally said that because the economy and domestic policy is really his strong suit is where they expect him to perform well. i think he is able to link america's place in the world to jobs. >> what happens if he comes out and says look, come on your foreign policy has been a disaster and barack obama says i killed bin laden and i helped to kill ghadafi and i ended the war in iraq and announced the war in...
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let's discuss quickly what happened last night with the libya debate. a lot of heat being given by the republicans today. that cnn's candy crowley shouldn't have jumped in and said what she said. from my point of view, when you have mitt romney saying for the record, we've now got it on the record. but of course it wasn't on the record. he was wrong. he chose the wrong line to put on the record because it turned out barack obama had said the phrase "act of terror" in the speech mitt romney was talking about. why shouldn't have candy crowley jumped in what she did? >> clearly the phrase act of terror was in the speech that was given in the rose garden. but there was no connection -- if you look at the text, there was no connection n my mind, between that phrase are any sense of cause although that cost stevens his death. but i think the questions are valid and they are going to continued to be asked and especially if you look at the timeline. how many people from the administration were unable to answer what caused this terrible calamity or blamed repeti
let's discuss quickly what happened last night with the libya debate. a lot of heat being given by the republicans today. that cnn's candy crowley shouldn't have jumped in and said what she said. from my point of view, when you have mitt romney saying for the record, we've now got it on the record. but of course it wasn't on the record. he was wrong. he chose the wrong line to put on the record because it turned out barack obama had said the phrase "act of terror" in the speech mitt...
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have no knowledge of any requests from an embassy for extra security, particularly in a hot spot like libya, where there's been so much attention from the white house in the last year? >> i can certainly see where someone else would have a different view but i think it is credible, particularly in the heat of an election campaign. i'm not saying it did or didn't happen but denying that it happened, it has credibility with me because the president, let's face it, has been concentrating, as has governor romney on three key states, florida, virginia and ohio, which those three states are going to settle the election. so i can believe that it happened but i do understand those who are skeptical and those who just don't believe it. >> ambassador rice has been criticized, her people have made it very, very clear to me that she acted on the intelligence she was given and when after four or five days after the event, they believed it was to do with protests because of the video, clearly now it was deemed to be a preorganized attack by al qaeda. that's what most people assume. do you think that she
have no knowledge of any requests from an embassy for extra security, particularly in a hot spot like libya, where there's been so much attention from the white house in the last year? >> i can certainly see where someone else would have a different view but i think it is credible, particularly in the heat of an election campaign. i'm not saying it did or didn't happen but denying that it happened, it has credibility with me because the president, let's face it, has been concentrating, as...
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what did you make of this furor today over the comments your father made about libya? basically saying that neither he nor the president had any knowledge of requests from the benghazi embassy for more security? there are two schools of thought. one is that he did mean the administration and then changed his tune today. the other one is that he's basically thrown the cia and state department under the bus. >> well, i don't think it's either. i think it's somewhere -- look, he spoke for himself and spoke for the president as jay carney, the white house press secretary, said today. the reality here, piers i that this is a tragedy. i've traveled, been honored to travel in recent years around the world and meet with our ambassadors. the idea that the congressman you had on your show this evening is somehow questioning whether or not the president of the united states is serious about making sure its ambassadors around the country, many of whom i know personally, are serious about their security is absolutely, absolutely irresponsible. the romney/ryan budget, paul ryan's bu
what did you make of this furor today over the comments your father made about libya? basically saying that neither he nor the president had any knowledge of requests from the benghazi embassy for more security? there are two schools of thought. one is that he did mean the administration and then changed his tune today. the other one is that he's basically thrown the cia and state department under the bus. >> well, i don't think it's either. i think it's somewhere -- look, he spoke for...
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. >> when it comes to trust, though, we're watching the hearings on the libya attack. and there is no doubt, now, there is an issue on the trust with the white house and the statements that came out from the various ambassadors and so on, what do you make it? what it a scandal? should heads roll? >> well, first of all, piers, president obama knew ambassador chris stevens, knew him personally and was so appreciative of his work. as president of the united states, that diplomat core works for him. and he nominates those ambassadors. so what we need to do when the united states has been attacked, when the americans have been killed while serving our country, we don't need to have mitt romney and the republicans in congress taking their first instinct, being to take cheap political shots -- >> hold on a minute, because it was not about what mitt romney which was clumsy in its own way, but the suggestion that ambassador rice made statements that were blaming -- this video -- >> piers. >> it must have been known after four or five days that it was much more likely to have be
. >> when it comes to trust, though, we're watching the hearings on the libya attack. and there is no doubt, now, there is an issue on the trust with the white house and the statements that came out from the various ambassadors and so on, what do you make it? what it a scandal? should heads roll? >> well, first of all, piers, president obama knew ambassador chris stevens, knew him personally and was so appreciative of his work. as president of the united states, that diplomat core...
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background america, the administration in the hot seat over the deadly attack in libya. >> it was a terrorist attack. let's be honest about it. >> mitt romney charged with flip-flopping again on abortion. >> i'll be a pro life president. >> frank bruni, my all-star candidate, going toe to toe. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening, 27 days to go until the election, look where we stand tonight, on the latest cnn polls, 47% for mitt romney, 47% for president obama. anything could happen in this race, shows you how high the stakes are going into the presidential debate. preparations are under way in danville, kentucky, and joe biden is getting ready for preparations. and paul ryan arrived, and mitt romney on the campaign trail in the battleground state of ohio. >> we have not had the strong leadership we needed in washington to take on our challenge, time and again, the president has told us he'd take on se of these things but has not. and then he turns around and tries to blame others, congress won't get together, congress won't get together unless there is a strong leadership that p
background america, the administration in the hot seat over the deadly attack in libya. >> it was a terrorist attack. let's be honest about it. >> mitt romney charged with flip-flopping again on abortion. >> i'll be a pro life president. >> frank bruni, my all-star candidate, going toe to toe. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening, 27 days to go until the election, look where we stand tonight, on the latest cnn polls, 47% for mitt romney,...
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. >> we had an interesting discussion about the libya situation. extraordinary comments. it is nothing to do with the republicans anymore. this is to do with how the white house, how the ambassadors dealt with this and it seems not good enough to me that you can put out erroneous statements five days after a terrorist attack. >> the point is they jumped to conclusions. they may not have been putting out the information. but they decided to jump to the conclusion that did not criticize or do anything negative to the war on terror. if you jump to the conclusion that you don't yet know is true i'm not sure how much better that is than lying. tackle that head on and say we have been struck by terror again. we are going to come down hard on this. what is wrong with that position? >> there is nothing wrong with the president asking the questions on that. we have a serious situation here. american lives were lost. we need to know what this means in terms of security going forward. we are not going to get good answers. on the hill, everyone is jockeying for political advantage. i
. >> we had an interesting discussion about the libya situation. extraordinary comments. it is nothing to do with the republicans anymore. this is to do with how the white house, how the ambassadors dealt with this and it seems not good enough to me that you can put out erroneous statements five days after a terrorist attack. >> the point is they jumped to conclusions. they may not have been putting out the information. but they decided to jump to the conclusion that did not...
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hitting the president with tough talk on foreign policy, including the deadly attack on americans in libya. >> this latest assault can't be blamed on a reprehensible video insulting islam, despite the administration's attempts to convince us of that for so long. no, as the administration has finally conceded, these attacks were the deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose their dark ideology on others, especially on women and girls who are fighting to control much of the middle east today and who seek to wage perpetual war on the west. >> joining me now, a man who knows quite a lot about mitt romney's views on all this, norm coleman, advisor to the romney campaign on foreign policy and former senator from minnesota. welcome to you, senator. >> piers, great to be with you today. >> let's start with this extraordinary poll today. the pew poll showing that your man, mitt romney, has sawed into the lead and quite comfortably. what do you make of that? >> well, certainly the debate was a defining moment in this campaign, but i think it's pretty simple. mitt romney has a plan, ha
hitting the president with tough talk on foreign policy, including the deadly attack on americans in libya. >> this latest assault can't be blamed on a reprehensible video insulting islam, despite the administration's attempts to convince us of that for so long. no, as the administration has finally conceded, these attacks were the deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose their dark ideology on others, especially on women and girls who are fighting to control much of the...
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we saw that happening in tunisia in egypt in libya. have you encouraged that? do you encourage the people of those countries to rise up and to protest? >> you see for the people to rise up or to start a movement it is their own reprogram gatttive, we do not meddle or interfere in that we believe everywhere justice respect freedom and friendship must prevail. >> do you believe fundamental any a man or a woman's right to protest? >> yes. it depends on the laws of any nation. all nation's laws are not equal. they differ. in most countries, one way or another, this is allowed under the laws but fundamentally, i do agree, certainly people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely, freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations. >> if that is -- >> no one has the right to take that away. >> if that is the case, why has the daughter of the former president of iran, why has she been imprisoned for protesting against your regime? >> in iran, there is only one regime, so perhaps they are protest against that and in iran, the judicial branch is not unde
we saw that happening in tunisia in egypt in libya. have you encouraged that? do you encourage the people of those countries to rise up and to protest? >> you see for the people to rise up or to start a movement it is their own reprogram gatttive, we do not meddle or interfere in that we believe everywhere justice respect freedom and friendship must prevail. >> do you believe fundamental any a man or a woman's right to protest? >> yes. it depends on the laws of any nation. all...
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one is the ongoing situation regarding the death of ambassador christopher stevens in libya. lots of vagueness about what really went on in the days leading up to this and indeed, afterwards. what is your assessment of where we are now? >> well, let me tell you what's not vague, and that is five days after, five days after what was very quickly determined by the intelligence committee as a terrorist attack, they trotted out our ambassador to the u.n. to every major news outlet saying that this was a spontaneous demonstration because of a hateful video. that's probably one of the worst things that i have ever observed in my life, and obviously, there were warnings and obviously anybody who believes that an attack with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and a very sophisticated attack is the result of a video, i mean, it's just ridiculous. and finally, piers, it's not the video that's stoking these demonstrations. as you know, it's the radical islamists that are using the videos as a means of inflaming passion in the middle east and i'll be damned if i'm ready to abandon the
one is the ongoing situation regarding the death of ambassador christopher stevens in libya. lots of vagueness about what really went on in the days leading up to this and indeed, afterwards. what is your assessment of where we are now? >> well, let me tell you what's not vague, and that is five days after, five days after what was very quickly determined by the intelligence committee as a terrorist attack, they trotted out our ambassador to the u.n. to every major news outlet saying that...
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. >>> we have the situation of the death of ambassador christopher stevens in libya. lots of vagueness about what really went on in the days leading up to this and indeed afterwards. what is your assessment of where we are now? >> what is not vague, and that is five days after what was very quickly determined by the intelligence committee as a terrorist attack, they trotted out our ambassador of the u.n. to every major news outlet saying that this was a spontaneous demonstration because of a hateful video. that's probably one of the worst things that i have ever observed in my life, and obviously there were warnings, and obviously anybody who believes in an attack with mortars and rocket hi rocket-propelled grenades, a very sophisticated attack, is the result of a video is just ridiculous. it's not the video that's stokingdemonstrations, it's the iraqis who are using these videos, and i'll be damned if i'm going to vacate the freedom of speech because of muhammad. >> are you in favor of her resigning? >> no, she was shooting the messenger. she was told to do that. i b
. >>> we have the situation of the death of ambassador christopher stevens in libya. lots of vagueness about what really went on in the days leading up to this and indeed afterwards. what is your assessment of where we are now? >> what is not vague, and that is five days after what was very quickly determined by the intelligence committee as a terrorist attack, they trotted out our ambassador of the u.n. to every major news outlet saying that this was a spontaneous demonstration...
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i was hit by tunisia, egypt, libya, the death of bin laden. the arab spring seemed to bring such excitement. we are looking at a murkier picture, not quite sure what is going on. what can america do, if anything to hasten or to change the current process? >> it should inspire hope, trust, stability and compassion. i think people look to america as a leader. if we can inspire stability and compassion with prakt >> caller: things like the princess said, economic department of women. everyone knows in the united nations it's the fastest way to change the world in the direction of not only peace, but social justice, economic justice, sustainability, health and well being. it's 50% of the population of our planet for the most part. >> i was talking to the general, he was saying the impact of having musicians come to this initiative here really cannot be underestimated that you can get to the huge audiences who hang on your every word. i know you take that responsibility seriously, globalization is here and is real. there's a sense, i think for many
i was hit by tunisia, egypt, libya, the death of bin laden. the arab spring seemed to bring such excitement. we are looking at a murkier picture, not quite sure what is going on. what can america do, if anything to hasten or to change the current process? >> it should inspire hope, trust, stability and compassion. i think people look to america as a leader. if we can inspire stability and compassion with prakt >> caller: things like the princess said, economic department of women....